Miami Museum Looks South to Go Global

With a new Herzog and de Meuron-designed building and a new name, the Miami Art Museum hopes to make that tropical city a center of the art world. Formerly known as the Miami Art Museum, the institution will be re-named in Pérez's honor when it reopens in December as the Art Museum Miami. Read More

Going Against the Grain: Interview with Sebastian Errazuriz

The exhibition "Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design," at New York's Museum of Arts and Design (through Sept. 15), features almost 90 objects and installations, by 57 international artists and designers, that reveal new approaches to wood as a material. Among the artists are figures like Ai Weiwei, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Martin Puryear; designers with work on view include Ian Spencer and Cairn Young from Yard Sale Project, and Joseph Walsh.
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King Herod, Master Builder, at Israel Museum

If walls could talk and stones could whisper, they'd hyperventilate in describing the colossal projects of King Herod (70 BCE-4 BCE) in the nation of Judea. His astounding constructions prove the truth of a quip by Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion: "To be a realist in Israel you have to believe in miracles." In one generation, Herod, fueled by megalomaniacal ambition, miraculously transformed Judea from a backwater province to an impressively up-to-date pseudo-Rome. Read More

Veronese in His Element

The 2009 exhibition "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese" at the Louvre and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts cast Venice's Big Three Renaissance painters as, respectively, "gold, silver, and bronze," according to Virginia Brilliant, curator of European art at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla. Her show, "Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice," at the Ringling through Apr. 14, makes a case for Veronese's claim to a golden crown.
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